This colorful wallcovering artwork, designed by Xavier Mader and manufactured by Joseph Dufour et Cie (c. 1752–1827), depicts the Greek mythological figures of Calypso...
Emperor Constantine V was the son of Emperor Leo III of Constantinople (r. 717-741), a ruler who brought much-needed stability to the Byzantine Empire...
Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755/1757-1804)
"Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter may readily be distinguished the obvious...
This colorful wallcovering artwork, designed by Xavier Mader and manufactured by Joseph Dufour et Cie (c. 1752–1827), depicts the Greek mythological figures of Calypso...
Egil Skallagrimsson (10th century Viking poet)
"Their numbers are dwindling, the famous
warriors who met with weapons
and spread gifts like the gold of day.
Where will I...
Countless advisors, philosophers, generals and statesmen of all kinds found fortune and destruction while serving the plentiful warring kings of ancient China. One particular...
(Statue of Constantine by Phillip Jackson at York Cathedral, England, in front of the 3rd century CE battle scene from the “Grande Ludovisi” sarcophagus,...
Rome’s Centumviral Court, often equated to chancery courts or courts of equity, was the legal arena in which ancient Roman lawyers arbitrated common/private/civil law...
